I’m going to try this tonight – Wednesdays, BBC One, 9pm – In light of recent interviews with Antony Rose who is responsible for the iPlayer and the industry news that Adobe Flash is coming to TVs and set top boxes it seems inevitable that this kind of value added service is going to end up on the TV rather than the laptop.

It all depends on the UI though. It may just be easier to keep the 2 seperate unless TV remote controls turn into mobile handsets…or vice versa…

Obvious differences include Anonymity but there are many more similarities that I relate to and believe in:

Participation – this is on the rise as a larger percentage of the audience engages and overcomes a technological barrier. e.g. Karaoke, Wii, 1v100, Facebook, Twitter etc.

Long form quality content is most popular online/VOD programming – As if you didn’t know, Content is King

Social Advocacy holds greatest sway – What your friends, family and peers think and say matters more than anything else in getting eyeballs – advocates not eyeballs matter in the long tail. e.g. BBC David Attenborough documentary fares better than Battle at Kruger (eventually…)

Local brands dominate Asian online video landscape – This is so much more relevant based on yesterday’s news in the UK that our Independent TV company, ITV, reported enormous losses. When will local advertisiers start having much more sway over national advertising?

2hrs of radio is sampled and displayed as a spiral of varying colours. The colours and their length within the spiral depict the type of audio playing e.g. talk, phone-in, pop song etc.

The most interesting thing about this is mentioned at the end of the presentation when Alia parallels what can be learnt just by looking at the visualisation of the stream in the same way as you’d use metadata.

This ties in nicely with this article from the Times onlne which reports on the announcement by the BBC that they’re prepared to work with commercial rivals in both programme making and digital advances.

Such a tool would massively minimize costs involved in finding archive clips within long form programming very cheaply.

My name is Rick Williams and a freelance consultant and founder at PixelPod, a digital storytelling and experience consultancy.